Lego activities

[Peppapug71]

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I have a interview tomorrow for a teaching assistant role at a local primary school. As part of the process, I’ve been asked to prepare a lesson of fifteen minutes for three children in year 5. The topic is my choice but it should ‘show progress’ and I must use Lego as a stimulant.

Please does anyone have any ideas?

Thank you

I thought about building a tower as tall as possible that can support a tennis ball, what do you think?

Good grief, you have to take 3 kids a you've never met, introduce yourself, asses their level, teach them something and get them to make progress all in 15 mins? That's a bonkers thing to ask a teacher, never mind a TA.
Tennis ball tower doesn't sound a bad activity, but what is the progress that you expect them to make?

Good god they make TAs teach in interview these days? I’d ask the school for information about the current level of attainment of the students you will have in the group because that will influence the activity. If they are bright and need stretching a simple activity won’t shoe enough progress but students who are below average attainment may struggle with the same activity.

I'd do something on faces, edges and vertices. Start with an easy challenge: build a simple shape then count the number of each (ask if they know what the terms mean and can identify them for you).

Then do the same but a more complex shape.

Then give them a limited number of blocks (10 or 12, say) and challenge them to build a shape with the maximum number of faces.

Go and look on the Lego Education website.
They have all sorts of bits on there including lesson plans which go with their educational products which might give you some ideas.

3 sets of identical blocks. One builds a configuration behind a screen then has to describe it for the others to recreate.